Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

St-Ericsson Sa

Jiang Cheng

Li Sun

Ni Ma

Yonggang Du

Xuejun Zhang

Fan Wu

Qunli Jia

The invention proposes a method of peer-to-peer instant messaging and the mobile terminal thereof, which could make the mobile terminal to establish and maintain a list of friend users and update the connection status of the friend users timely. The method of peer-to-peer instant messaging includes following steps: receiving the list of on-line users with capability of peer-to-peer instant messaging sent by the radio network (S); comparing said list of particular users with said received list of on-line users (S); updating, according to said comparison result, the connection status record of each user in said list of particular users (S) so that the mobile terminal could establish a peer-to-peer instant messaging with at least one user mobile terminal in said list of particular users according to said updated connection status record. The present invention enables the user to establish peer-to-peer connection more effectively and to perform instant messaging while occupying less network resources.

Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer instant messaging

A method for maintaining uplink synchronization in PP (Peer to Peer) communication, performed by a user equipment in wireless communication systems, comprising: negotiating with a wireless communication network system about the schedule and parameters for controlling the uplink synchronization of the user equipment by the procedure of establishing PP direct link; transmitting testing signals to the network system via a customized uplink channel according to the negotiated parameters; receiving the control information transmitted via a customized downlink channel from the network system according to the negotiated schedule; and maintaining uplink synchronization of the user equipment in PP communication according to the control information. Uplink synchronization can be realized through the customized channel, so the present invention can overcome the problem of overload brought by implementing uplink synchronization through the downlink common control channel and system performance degradation caused by increasing the transmitting power of the user equipment to transmit PP signals.

Method and apparatus for uplink synchronization maintenance with P2P communication in wireless communication networks

A method is proposed for maintaining uplink synchronization with P2P communication in wireless communication networks, comprising steps of: the wireless communication system overhears the P2P communication between two UEs (user equipments), determines the SS (synchronization shift) information of said UEs according to the overheard information transferred by each UE in P2P communication, and transmits the SS information to the corresponding UE via the downlink common control channel; the UE monitors the downlink common control channel, and adjusts the TA (timing advance) for transmitting signals according to the SS information transferred via the downlink common control channel.

Method and system for maintaining uplink synchronization with peer-to-peer communication in wireless communication system

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